Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When we came to early practice the Boston area papers didn't even mention me as a prospect," George said. "The only guy they seemed to think had a chance was someone named Big Hole. The columns read 'and at quarterback the Crimson will have a Big Hole.' Well, I didn't know this guy Big Hole, so I decided to show up for practice and try my luck...
...strike myself, having been taught at an early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having struck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy to prospect of not attending classes--in contrast to Harvard-perusual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step, I began to absorb the issues of the strike--ROTC, Afro-American Studies, expansion--and could see nothing objectionable and a lot of good in the position staked...
Harvard's research funds, which had already suffered from several Federal cutbacks, faced the prospect of another $1 million cut from the National Science Foundation. The Faculty set up a special committee to decide how to divide the loss among Harvard's many research projects...
There is no doubt that the readjustment hypothesized above would create serious hardships for some people, particularly scientists, and these should not be underemphasized. I expect the prospect of these dislocations and the squabbling over just who would be dislocated would be viewed as an impediment to restructuring more serious than the loss of Federal funds. Table I FEDERAL SUPPORT OF HIGHER EDUCATION Expenditures (Millions of dollars) percentage 1968 1969 1970 of 1970 actual estimate estimate total Student support $1,455 $1,753 $1,936 39% Academic research 1,434 1,404 1,499 30% Institutional support: 29% Current operations...
...formula: the inclusion of leftists or Communists in his Cabinet. "At any time, any day, any week," he said last week, "when necessary, I have to change my Ministers to cope with the situation." The job Nixon now faces is to persuade the South Vietnamese President to accept the prospect of some kind of agreement with the Communists, without at the same time undercutting the fragile stability that Thieu has managed to build up in Saigon...